Child Language
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Modeling the categorical perception of speech sounds: a step toward biological plausibility.

30 Aug 2009 Our native language has a lifelong effect on how we perceive speech sounds. Behaviorally, this is manifested as categorical perception, but the neural mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are still unknown. Here, we constructed a computational ... Read more...

Children's understanding of second-order mental states.

30 Aug 2009 The most popular topic in theory-of-mind research has been first-order false belief: the realization that it is possible to hold false beliefs about events in the world. A more advanced development is second-order false belief: the realization that ... Read more...

Cerebral laterality for phonemic and prosodic cue decoding in children with autism.

24 Aug 2009 This study examined the cerebral functional lateralization, from a phonological perspective, in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing children (TDC). With near infrared spectroscopy, we measured auditory ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Child Language'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Modeling the categorical perception of speech sounds: a step toward biological plausibility. 30 Aug 2009
• Children's understanding of second-order mental states. 30 Aug 2009
• Cerebral laterality for phonemic and prosodic cue decoding in children with autism. 24 Aug 2009
• Overlap with the autism spectrum in young children with Williams syndrome. 30 Jul 2009
• Interactions between a deaf child for whom English is an additional language and his specialist teacher in the first year at school: combining words and gestures. 30 Jul 2009
• Word searches: on the use of verbal and non-verbal resources during classroom talk. 30 Jul 2009
• Using conversation analysis to explore the recurrence of a topic in the talk of a boy with an autism spectrum disorder. 30 Jul 2009
• Applying conversation analysis to interactions with atypically developing children. 30 Jul 2009
• Developmental factors and the non-native speaker effect in auditory-visual speech perception. 30 Jul 2009
• Language and learning: a discussion of typical and disordered development. Foreword. 30 Jul 2009
• Phonological accuracy and intelligibility in connected speech of boys with fragile X syndrome or Down syndrome. 30 Jul 2009
• The growth of tense productivity. 30 Jul 2009
• The expressive elaboration of imaginative narratives by children with specific language impairment. 30 Jul 2009
• The diagnostic accuracy of a new test of early nonword repetition for differentiating late talking and typically developing children. 30 Jul 2009
• Foundations for a new science of learning. 15 Jul 2009
• Flexible learning of multiple speech structures in bilingual infants. 7 Jul 2009
• How do children ascribe gender to nouns? A study of Spanish-speaking children with and without specific language impairment. 29 Jun 2009
• Epilogue: Morphology and literacy: getting (and keeping) our heads in the game. 29 Jun 2009
• Morphological awareness skills of fourth-grade African American students. 29 Jun 2009
• The influence of morphological awareness on the literacy development of first-grade children. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Child Language'

Definition: The language and sounds expressed by a child at a particular maturational stage in development.

Descriptor UI: D002663

Alternative terms: Child Language; Child Languages; Language, Child; Languages, Child;

Tree Number: F01.525.200.310.250;

Online Note: search LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 1968-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 1975-90

Technical Notes: no qualif; check also tag CHILD or specific